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ن-س-خ

Nun-Sin-Kha

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About this root

Nun-Sin-Kha (ن-س-خ) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: istansakha (to clone / to replicate).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 4 times in 4 verses, across 4 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:106.

Themes: Science Medicine

Words from this root

WordMeaningTypeTaught in
اِسْتَنْسَخَ
istansakha
to clone / to replicateverb, B2Environment & Climate

In the Quran

۞ مَا نَنسَخْ مِنْ ءَايَةٍ أَوْ نُنسِهَا نَأْتِ بِخَيْرٍ مِّنْهَآ أَوْ مِثْلِهَآ ۗ أَلَمْ تَعْلَمْ أَنَّ ٱللَّهَ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَىْءٍ قَدِيرٌ

Nothing of our revelation (even a single verse) do we abrogate or cause be forgotten, but we bring (in place) one better or the like thereof. Knowest thou not that Allah is Able to do all things?

Quran 2:106
وَلَمَّا سَكَتَ عَن مُّوسَى ٱلْغَضَبُ أَخَذَ ٱلْأَلْوَاحَ ۖ وَفِى نُسْخَتِهَا هُدًى وَرَحْمَةٌ لِّلَّذِينَ هُمْ لِرَبِّهِمْ يَرْهَبُونَ

Then, when the anger of Moses abated, he took up the tablets, and in their inscription there was guidance and mercy for all those who fear their Lord.

Quran 7:154
هَـٰذَا كِتَـٰبُنَا يَنطِقُ عَلَيْكُم بِٱلْحَقِّ ۚ إِنَّا كُنَّا نَسْتَنسِخُ مَا كُنتُمْ تَعْمَلُونَ

This Our Book pronounceth against you with truth. Lo! We have caused (all) that ye did to be recorded.

Quran 45:29

Arabic text: Tanzil Quran Text (Uthmani 1.1), CC BY 3.0, tanzil.net. English: Marmaduke Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (1930), public domain, via Project Gutenberg. Counts and verse choice: Quranic Arabic Corpus morphology data (corpus.quran.com).

Word cards with examples

B2verb
اِسْتَنْسَخَ
istansakha

to clone / to replicate

Example
نَجَحَ العُلَماءُ في اِستِنساخِ خَلايا جَذعِيَّة.
najaḥa l-ʿulamāʾu fī stinsākhi khalāyā jadhʿiyya.
Scientists succeeded in cloning stem cells.

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